| BYU Professor Completes TenFold ?Powered Application in Record Time |
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - September 25, 2003 - TenFold® Corporation (OTC BB: TENF.OB), provider of the Universal Application™ platform for building and implementing enterprise applications, today announced the successful completion, in record time, of a knowledge collaboration application developed by Brigham Young University visiting associate computer science professor, Yuri Tijerino. Dr. Tijerino used a pre-beta version of the TenFold product, code-named Tsunami™, and completed an application in just one day of combined effort, which he estimated would have taken him up to six months with any other technology. "I'm now a believer in TenFold's claim to reduce design, development and deployment time of complex applications by at least ten times," said Dr. Tijerino. "After attending a presentation on the Tsunami initiative by TenFold Founder and CTO, Jeff Walker, I decided to accept the challenge to do something important, fast. I've wanted to research and publish on the concept of technology-assisted knowledge collaboration, but felt existing applications development technology would take many months of work. Not including the RDBMS design phase, I built the complete application in two half-day sessions. That's one day. Versus six months. By my calculation, even assuming a five-day workweek, this is a one-hundred-to-one acceleration. So 'ten fold' is a gross understatement." Dr. Tijerino's knowledge collaboration application allows team- and company-wide queries for answers to a variety of questions. It recommends likely people who can solve a given problem, and "learns" as people seeking information rate their sources and the system responses. In addition, contributors who have "Ah-ha!" moments can add to the knowledge base before questions are asked. "TenFold technology delivered not only speed, but quality and power too," continues Dr. Tijerino. "Because I didn't write any code and only used pre-existing functionality, the typical quality problems created by newly-written code are non-existent in my application." "Just as it is practically impossible to write a spreadsheet that doesn't work perfectly," explains TenFold founder and CTO, Jeffrey L. Walker, "it is also impossible to produce a TenFold-powered application without the eleven quality attributes we associate with a fully-tested and production-ready application. Quality is just built-in because TenFold's technology renders the application automatically." Concludes Dr. Tijerino, "Every time I thought of a feature I'd like in my application, it already existed. I just had to turn it on. These features spanned the gamut from security by value, to instantaneous redesign of everything from look-and-feel, to browser/desktop availability, to massive database redesign. Nothing else anywhere else that I know has this kind of inherent power." "It was fun to work with Dr. Tijerino," said Bruce Tow, a TenFold co-founder who assisted the BYU professor with his database design. "What a thrill to show a computer scientist who really understands enterprise applications what we have. I loved the expressions on his face as new parts of his application appeared, piece by piece, every few minutes." About TenFold TenFold (OTC: TENF.OB) licenses its breakthrough, patented technology for applications development, the Universal Application, to organizations that face the daunting task of replacing obsolete applications or building complex applications systems. Unlike traditional approaches, where business and technology requirements create difficult IT bottlenecks, Universal Application technology lets a small, business team design, build, deploy, maintain, and upgrade new or replacement applications with extraordinary speed and limited demand on scarce IT resources. For more information, call (800) TENFOLD or visit www.10fold.com. About Dr. Yuri Tijerino Currently a visiting associate professor of computer science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Dr. Tijerino was chief technology officer at Compass A.I., Inc. in Eldorado Hills, California. He has over 10 years experience directing, planning and leading software development efforts in artificial intelligence, ontological engineering, knowledge management, telecommunications, integration and interactive media. Prior roles include Director of Global Strategy and Director of Technology-Knowledge Management at SAIC. He can be contacted via Email at yuri@cs.byu.edu. # # # This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual future events or results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this release include that Universal Application technology lets a small business team build, and maintain applications with extraordinary speed and limited demand on IT resources. Factors that could cause actual results regarding product and technology assertions to differ materially from those in forward looking statements include inadequate training, incorrect installation, use of unsupported hardware and software versions or combinations thereof, and inadequate consultation with TenFold Support. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is contained from time to time in documents filed by TenFold Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to, the most recent reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K. TenFold, Universal Application and Tsunami are trademarks of TenFold Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Press contact: Sally N. White TenFold Corporation (801) 619-8232 swhite@10fold.com |
